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Mycelial Networks adapted to cold

  • 26-10-2021 9:30pm
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    Greatly inspired by Merlin Sheldrake's Entagled Life book, particularly the relationship between mycelial networks and trees/forests

    IT seems that plant life and fungii are mutually co-dependent and one cannot survive without the other(particularly plants)

    It got me thinking about barren planets such as Mars, and finding inactive myecelial networks in MArtian soil, like those found in Arctic permafrost would be a very good way for looking for past life.. you wouldn't necessarily have to find the fungal cells

    Looking up cold tolerant fungii that can metabolise at freezing point made me wonder is there research going on at the moment investigations what traits make an organism more cold tolerant, and if so, can they be manipulated to allow the organism to work at well below 0 degrees....future terraforming potential

    And lastly if there is research afoot, can any of the slog work by taken over by volunteers, kinda like volunteers sifting through data looking for patterns that could be extrasolar planets!

    Please contribute



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    Capt'n Midnight
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    There are organisms with natural antifreeze.

    But the big problem on the surface of Mars is the low atmospheric pressure. Water wouldn't last long as it would go directly from a solid to a gas, neither useful for dissolving the organic soup inside cells. Same with carbon dioxide.



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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118077996#Comment_118077996

    I take the point about low atmospheric pressure, but how about some other substrate other than martian "air",, such as in rocks or deeper down?



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